Re: SAMPLE aggregate function

I suspect that’s less surprising than the alternative. There’s no lexical connection between the SAMPLE() expressions so I don’t see why a user would expect them to return values from the same solution.

If it was SAMPLE(?a, ?b) AS (?a, ?b) I would agree.

On 7 Jul 2014, at 23:27, Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> wrote:

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> I was thinking about SAMPLE and feel that there is a bug with the spec because it allows
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> A=1 B=2
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> as an answer from
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> SELECT (SAMPLE(?a) as ?A) (SAMPLE(?b) as ?B)
> {
>   { BIND(1 as ?a) BIND(1 as ?b)}
>   UNION
>  { BIND(2 as ?a) BIND(2 as ?b)}
> }
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> I think the principal of least surprise would suggest that a single select should use the same solution to pick out the sample values, giving either 1,1 or 2,2 as possible solutions here.
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> Jeremy
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Received on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:02:50 UTC